In the buff

Some of you know that I'm an avid gardener when the weather permits. In the last couple of years, I've also gotten a little obsessive about seed trading, as well. This has served me well: I've "met" many online seed traders via various Yahoo groups and over Gardenweb.com (the people there are knowledgeable and friendly, for the most part).

Last year, I traded seeds with a nice fellow in Delaware. Well, I say traded, but I think I even neglected to send him the seeds I owed him, because I'm lazy and forgetful. Somewhere, I still have a label with his address on it, with a note to send him columbine seeds or something. But anyway, every so often, I get an email from a chat service, or one of those "keep track of your friends online!" services mentioning his name: Harry Morninglory wants you to join FriendMonster! I usually delete them without thinking much about it (except for the stab of guilt that I never sent him his seeds - why does he want to keep in touch with me, when I'm a bad trader? He must just have me in his address book, and import that info every time he joins one of these services). But this time, there was a link to his page. Hey! I thought, He had such great garden photos on his GardenWeb page. I wonder if he has any new flower photos on this page? And I clicked through, noting his interest in Cher, the movie The Birdcage and the Carolina Tar Heels, and only noticing the following paragraph after reading that the thing he is "scared of" is "having to wear clothes":

Looking for great friends who don't care about dressing just to hang out. Nudity is the only way to share being open and honest. If this is something you like to do, please let me know so we can hook up.

Dude. Now I'm pretty sure that I'm never going to send those seeds I owe you. Sorry.